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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

In research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution stands highest in Earth and Planetary Sciences (#46 of 1,088 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#638 of 10,670 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#219 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Earth-Surface Processes (Oceanography is 79.5× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,090
of 22,385 · #535 all time
Rank in United States
#240
of 3,332
Research works
13k
▼ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
723k
57.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

What is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #46 of 1,088 11.2%459 #12
Physical SciencesDomain #638 of 10,670 11.5%882 #331
Environmental ScienceField #219 of 3,334 14.1%280 #91
OceanographySubfield #11 of 158 11.3%217 #5
EcologySubfield #45 of 600 16.3%113 #35
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #88 of 544 13.9%73 #42
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #64 of 294 9.8%107 #22
EngineeringField #2,034 of 5,901 4.5%80 #738
GeophysicsSubfield #80 of 225 11.9%73 #34

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences#12 #46
  2. Physical Sciences#331 #638
  3. Environmental Science#91 #219
  4. Oceanography#5 #11
  5. Ecology#35 #45
  6. Global and Planetary Change#42 #88
  7. Atmospheric Science#22 #64
  8. Engineering#738 #2,034
  9. Geophysics#34 #80
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (47%), Environmental Science (28%), Engineering (8%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,001 fractional works · 89.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 526 fractional works · 47.1% of its workOceanography: 249 fractional works · 22.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 119 fractional works · 10.7% of its workGeophysics: 82 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 35 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPaleontology: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 14 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeology: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 315 fractional works · 28.2% of its workEcology: 128 fractional works · 11.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 81 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 46 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPollution: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 86 fractional works · 7.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 40 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 30 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 24 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 26 fractional works · 2.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 69 fractional works · 6.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 30 fractional works · 2.7% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAquatic Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKWoods HoleOceanographic…1,116fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences52647.1%
    2. Environmental Science31528.2%
    3. Engineering867.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy302.6%
    5. Computer Science262.3%
    6. Chemistry80.7%
    7. Materials Science50.4%
    8. Chemical Engineering20.2%
    9. Energy20.2%
    10. Mathematics20.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology464.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences171.6%
    3. Neuroscience30.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences131.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities100.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.3%
    4. Decision Sciences20.2%
    5. Psychology10.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
    1. Medicine100.9%
    2. Health Professions40.3%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 79.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 249.0 works80×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 526.1 works30×
  3. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 35.1 works26×
  4. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 119.3 works24×
  5. GeophysicsSubfield · 82.4 works21×
  6. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 45.8 works19×
  7. EcologySubfield · 127.9 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.77× its world share, 46 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.43× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.30× its world share, 26 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 30.05× its world share, 526 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.51× its world share, 86 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.68× its world share, 315 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.19× its world share, 30 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 30.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.05×526 works
  2. Environmental Science5.68×315 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.19×30 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.77×46 works
  5. Chemical Engineering0.62×2 works
  6. Engineering0.51×86 works
  7. Chemistry0.43×8 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.33×17 works
  9. Veterinary0.33×0 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.31×10 works
  11. Computer Science0.30×26 works
  12. Decision Sciences0.23×2 works
  13. Energy0.22×2 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.20×2 works
  15. Neuroscience0.17×3 works
  16. Nursing0.17×1 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×3 works
  18. Health Professions0.13×4 works
  19. Materials Science0.12×5 works
  20. Mathematics0.12×2 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.11×0 works
  22. Social Sciences0.09×13 works
  23. Medicine0.05×10 works
  24. Psychology0.04×1 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution?

Ranked on the quality score, Scott C. Doney, Stanley R. Hart and Peter Lloyd Tyack lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

  1. 1 Scott C. Doney United States · #10,746 worldwide 84k citations · 699 works
  2. 2 Stanley R. Hart United States · #12,232 worldwide 34k citations · 292 works
  3. 3 Peter Lloyd Tyack United States · #19,979 worldwide 27k citations · 426 works
  4. 4 Ken O. Buesseler United States · #23,983 worldwide 28k citations · 334 works
  5. 5 John Waterbury United States · #24,959 worldwide 29k citations · 273 works
  6. 6 Hal Caswell United States · #25,020 worldwide 33k citations · 325 works
  7. 7 Holger W. Jannasch United States · #26,484 worldwide 20k citations · 217 works
  8. 8 Elizabeth B. Kujawinski United States · #32,312 worldwide 9.2k citations · 159 works
  9. 9 Edward R. Sholkovitz United States · #32,866 worldwide 15k citations · 105 works
  10. 10 Tracy J. Mincer United States · #36,610 worldwide 16k citations · 78 works
All ranked researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

What are the most cited papers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution?

The most cited paper from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is "Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2" (Evan K Bolyen et al., 2019), with 25,165 citations. Next come "IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP" (10,058) and "The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)" (7,945).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 Evan K Bolyen et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access112 authors 24 Jul 2019 25,165
2 IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access 2010 10,058
3 The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access Aug 2020 7,945
4 Green Fluorescent Protein as a Marker for Gene Expression Martin Chalfie, Yuan Tu, Ghia M. Euskirchen et al. · Science 11 Feb 1994 6,824
5 Culture of Phytoplankton for Feeding Marine Invertebrates Robert R. L. Guillard Book chapter 1975 5,329
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Ocean Circulation, Global Warming, Data Assimilation, Climate Change Impact, Oceanic Modeling, Tidal Analysis and Remote Sensing.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change330▲ 11×69 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation132▲ 86×3 topics
  3. Global Warming95▲ 20×13 topics
  4. Data Assimilation83▲ 45×4 topics
  5. Remote Sensing79▲ 5.8×22 topics
  6. Climate Change Impact74▲ 29×2 topics
  7. Oceanic Modeling74▲ 186×1 topic
  8. Tidal Analysis74▲ 186×1 topic
  9. Machine Learning69▲ 1.87×22 topics
  10. Marine Sediments65▲ 91×2 topics
  11. Harmful Algal Blooms54▲ 58×3 topics
  12. Acoustic Techniques54▲ 153×1 topic
  13. Seafloor Mapping54▲ 153×1 topic
  14. Conservation51▲ 11×13 topics
  15. Population Dynamics49▲ 17×8 topics
  16. Eutrophication49▲ 39×4 topics
  17. Nutrient Limitation47▲ 38×2 topics
  18. Dissolved Organic Matter47▲ 93×1 topic
  19. Holocene47▲ 37×3 topics
  20. Oceanic Carbon Cycle47▲ 93×1 topic
  21. Ocean Acidification46▲ 55×3 topics
  22. Acoustic Communication46▲ 79×2 topics
  23. Arctic43▲ 35×4 topics
  24. Sea Level42▲ 40×2 topics
  25. Predator-Prey Interactions40▲ 46×3 topics
  26. Paleoclimatology40▲ 43×2 topics
  27. Microbial Communities40▲ 8.2×8 topics
  28. Sea Level Rise39▲ 28×3 topics
  29. Anthropogenic Noise39▲ 123×1 topic
  30. Marine Mammals39▲ 123×1 topic
  31. Glacial Cycles39▲ 53×1 topic
  32. Monsoon Dynamics39▲ 53×1 topic
  33. Tomography38▲ 20×4 topics
  34. Tropical Cyclones38▲ 59×2 topics
  35. Wave Modeling38▲ 66×2 topics
  36. Anaerobic38▲ 52×1 topic
  37. Gas Hydrates38▲ 52×1 topic
  38. Methane Oxidation38▲ 43×2 topics
  39. Plate Tectonics35▲ 21×3 topics
  40. Sea-Level Rise33▲ 26×5 topics

Which research topics does Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Underwater Acoustics Research, Marine and coastal ecosystems and Marine animal studies overview.

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 74 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Research: 54 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosy…47Marine and coastal ecosystems: 47 fractional worksMarine animal studies ov…39Marine animal studies overview: 39 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 39 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 38 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice…31Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 31 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 27 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis: 26 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 24 fractional works
OceanographyEcologyAtmospheric ScienceEnvironmental Chemistry3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 74 works
  2. 2 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 54 works
  3. 3 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 47 works
  4. 4 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 39 works
  5. 5 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 39 works
  6. 6 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 38 works
  7. 7 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 31 works
  8. 8 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 27 works
  9. 9 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 26 works
  10. 10 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 24 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available35.1%not open64.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.2%domestic only80.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0049% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution0.0043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution11.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 26.5% in 2007.

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